Definition of Employment

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Employment

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government.

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Employment Quotations

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Mary Wollstonecraft

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith

Employment Translations

employment in Dutch is toepassing, aanwending
employment in German is Arbeitsplatz {m}, Anstellung {f}, Dienst {m}
employment in Italian is ente, funzione
employment in Latin is negotium
employment in Norwegian is arbeid
employment in Portuguese is emprego
employment in Spanish is acomodo

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